I was underwhelmed by the first two volumes of the series, but this fell in my hand at the library the other day, and I noticed some impressive names on the cover: George O'Connor, Victoria Jamieson, and Ben Hatke. Unfortunately, this is not their best work, aiming to be strictly juvenile. Not bad, but I was hoping for so much more. ( )

A fun collection of shorts involving detention is great for most kids.

Breakfast Bunch in Detention Disaster 2 stars
Too silly for me

Cheating Death
Meh
2 stars

Worse than detention 3.5/4 stars
I loved this one! My favorite of the collection. I've worked with kids, and they have a tendency to be just like Mitchell.

Milo's Journey 3 stars
Nice. I liked the fantasy elements even tho the wizard business was confusing. I thought Milo was dreaming, but I guess he wasn't *shrugs *

Too Nice 3 stars
Oh my gosh! The art style is super cute! The story's cute too.

Cyclopean Kid 3 stars
"The world looks so sad through the blur of my tears. "
Super adorable art style!

Think about what you have done 3 stars
Simple but I liked it!

Squish Leave No Detention 2 stars
It was fine ( )

As I've mentioned before, I sometimes just pull random books off of the shelf if the cover tickles my fancy. That's precisely how I ended up reading Comics Squad #3: Detention by Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Matt Phelan, Victoria Jamieson, Ben Hatke, Rafael Rosario & Jorge Aguirre, and George O'Connor. (Please excuse me while I take a nap after copying down all of those authors.) As you might have guessed, this is a collection of comics by different authors all centering on the theme of detention. I'm obviously not the right audience for this because 1. I'm too old to get detention and 2. Even when I was old enough for it I never got detention. So while I didn't feel as overwhelmingly into this collection as a typical middle grader I still enjoyed it overall. That being said, there were some that stood out more than others and when I looked back through them I realized they were all by the same artist: Matt Phelan. I immediately added his works to my TRL (look out for that post in the near future). If you're interested in trying out a wide variety of illustrative styles and author's voices then this is a really great way to do that. It's definitely a mixed bag so you'll come away with hopefully at least one author/illustrator that you'll want to check out further. It was a light, fast read that served as somewhat of a palate cleanser after some of the denser books that I read previously. It's a 6/10 for me but I wouldn't say no to more books in this series (which do indeed exist if you didn't guess by #3 in the title). ( )